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Originally Posted by lostfaust
I am also curious on whether I should continue reading LC ministry books at all, since they were helpful in the beginning of my Christian journey, but eventually felt like ideals or standards of a "Christian" I could never meet.
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People on this forum will have different opinions but for myself I had to deprogram myself of many of Witness Lee's teachings which were unbiblical before I could understand the bible. One premise of the Lord's Recovery is that the early church started off good and degraded over time. I actually have come to agree with Witness Lee on this point but I disagree with him on his approach to the "Lord's Recovery" which was to take in leaven from teachers hundreds of years removed from the early church who held to speculative theologies and add on his own invented leaven as well. Instead he could have just researched what the early church believed which was often the most literal interpretation of the bible.
Also, my conclusion is today there is no real one true church as an organization but the church is composed of true believers spread across many different groups and denominations which have varying degrees of leaven so don't expect to find a perfect church and if some group claims to be the one true church, run away!
Going back to deprogramming, this web page helped me as a starting point to uncover the major false doctrines Lee taught:
http://www.bcbsr.com/topics/lc.html
I also wish someone had told me to research what the early church believed about salvation so I wouldn't waste time with theologies like Calvinism:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVN7NXqwjro
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzqDV91AFPo
There is also an important method to understand the bible known as "scripture interprets scripture" I wish I had known earlier. If scripture which is breathed by the Holy Spirit (2 Tim 3:16-17) interprets itself, then you don't really need commentary though they can be helpful at times. Whenever you come across a verse you don't understand, there is often another verse that explains it.
1 John 2:27
But you have received the Holy Spirit, and he lives within you, so you don’t need anyone to teach you what is true. For the Spirit teaches you everything you need to know, and what he teaches is true—it is not a lie. So just as he has taught you, remain in fellowship with Christ.
That said I have found gifted teachers on youtube that have helped me tremendously. For example, Sam Shamoun's explanation of Job recently brought me to tears:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzYeOb798ZY